When my friend, Erik, first floated the idea of a self-piloted voyage along the Erie Canal, I did the math. From my apartment in Rochester, New York, I can drive west to the town of Spencerport in 21 ...

Tucked away in Tuscarawas County, where the Tuscarawas River meanders through eastern Ohio’s rolling landscape, sits Bolivar ...

Tucked away in Tuscarawas County, where the rolling hills of eastern Ohio cradle the gentle flow of the Tuscarawas River, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes when you take a photo, you know it’s the one. That was the case with this shot. For the Erie Canal's anniversary project ...

Sometimes when you take a photo, you know it’s the one. That was the case with this shot. For the Erie Canal's anniversary project, I spent days kayaking different sections at different times to ...

Albany Waterway Incorporated web landing page. Artist and historian Len Tantillo has been floating the idea of reopening Albany’s portion of the Erie Canal for more than 30 years. In 2022, the idea ...

Jun 2, 2025 Jun 2, 2025 Updated Jul 8, 2025 0 BRUTUS — It’s been 200 years this October since the Erie Canal was completed, which brought with it swathes of economic growth for the dozens of New York ...

Cleveland’s natural landscape made the city into an industrial hub, but as the 1800s became the 1900s, that relationship began to shift.